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For LASCO, it's always eclipse time! Check out this awesome image with Mercury, Jupiter, the Pleiades and a CME!
I *think* this is Jupiter's moon Callisto in LASCO C2
Bill Nye and me! Awesome night at the #spacesymposium :)
Ever wondered what a "Marsden-group" comet looks like? Wonder no more!
#CometSWAN in raw LASCO C2 data. Hate to break the bad news but this comet is NOT going to survive...
Am doing some Comet Lovejoy analysis right now. Get to play with these beautiful SDO images. *happy sigh*
Here's yesterday's Kreutz-group comet entering SOHO/LASCO C2. It should be reaching perihelion right around now.
Newly discovered Kreutz-group comet in LASCO C3. Still small, but should get quite bright...
SOHO discovers lots of comets in November and December, but most of them look like this...
Two very bright stars meet a bright comet. One of the three won't survive the encounter... #comet
SOHO's latest comet discovery could get as bright as m3 or m4 later today
SOHO's latest comet discovery has about 24hrs left before it vaporizes in the solar corona
If anyone finds any #UARS debris that looks like this, it's ours and we'd love to have it back :)
Yesterday's now-evaporated bright Kreutz comet didn't die alone! This small companion was visible by its side.
Here's an earlier image of the bright Kreutz-group comet currently in SOHO/LASCO C3
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